Abdisho bar Berika
Abdisho bar Berika or Ebedjesu (died 1318), also known as Mar Odisho or St. Odisho in English, was a Syriac writer. According to some scholars, Abdisho was born in Nusaybin and became a monk in the monastery of Mar Aḥa and Mar John – however, this might be a confusion with Abdisho IV Maron.
Also recorded as Abdischo bar Berika · Ebedjesus · Ebedjesus bar Berika · Ebed Jesus
Abdisho bar Berika
- Born
- 1250 · Nusaybin.
- Died
- 1318
- Occupation
- writer · canon law jurist · presbyter · metropolitan · archbishop
- Languages
- Syriac
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Berika became bishop of Shiggar (Sinjar) and the province of Bet 'Arbaye (Arbayestan) and later metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia. For these offices, dates are given in parts of the literature (bishop of Sinjar in 1285, metropolitan of Nisibis in 1291), but these are likely based on ambiguous contemporary sources and are therefore unreliable. He was the author of the Marganitha (The Book of the Jewel), one of the most important ecclesiastical texts of the Assyrian Church of the East, a kind of theological encyclopaedia. He wrote biblical commentaries in Syriac, as well as polemical treatises against heresy and dogmatic and legal writings. His legal works are the Nomokanon, which is largely based on the predecessor by Gabriel of Basra, and the Regulation of Ecclesiastical Judgements and Laws (often cited with a Latin translation of the title, as ordo iudiciorum ecclesiasticorum). He also wrote texts in metrical form including an author catalogue, which played an important role in Syrian literary history.
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• The "book of the jewel" or Marganitha (1298) • Catalogue of biblical and ecclesiastical books. • Paradise of Eden.
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- 1.Zammit, Martin. 'Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo (Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard).
- 2.Lavenant, René. Abdīšō Berika bar. 3. 1919.
- 3.Baumstark, Anton. History of Syriac literature with exclusion of the Palestinian Christian texts. 632. 1922.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Kaufhold, Hubert. Ebedjesus von Nisibis, „Ordo iudiciorum ecclesiasticorum“. Eine Zusammenstellung der kirchlichen Rechtsbestimmungen der ostsyrischen Kirche im 14. Jahrhundert. Harrassowitz. 2019. 978-3-447-11294-9.
- Benjamin, Yoab. A comparative Study of ‛Abdīshō's Paradise of Eden and the Maḳāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. Assyrian Academic Society. 8. 1. 51-82. 1994.
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